hi, with owl finals coming up and gravel pit being in the finals map pool my team is becoming progressively more concerned about gravel pit. a top contending team is almost guaranteed to run the iron man defence against us however no team we have scrimmed will use this defence against us. the team we are competing with do not like to use this strategy in scrims and we will have little to no experience trying to play against this iron man defence. what is the best way to counter an iron man defence? sorry if its a really broad question.

Note: "Iron-Man Defense" of gravelpit means attempting to defend BOTH A and B for as long as possible before settling on one of them eventually. Typically it is done with a Heavy instead of sentry.

No Mercy

Everyone go to A and cap. Leave the medic primary soldier and demoman at the A-C connector with 2 scouts and 2ndary with pain train cap A at x6.

If you fail at A (should be impossible with demo setup), have some cap pressure at B (1 scout) while you seriously attempt to keep capping A with the rest. Eventually they will give up A and be ready to defend B, having won themselves some time but without a engineer, and maybe no uber (hard to grind efficiently with a heavy primary).

Sure way to fail vs iron man is to leave your medic alone in spawn while you all cap A